Photos, press clippings tell of a city at war
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THE latest exhibition to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression opened yesterday at the Shanghai Archives.
The display features about 50 items, including English-language reports from foreign newspapers and magazines, and a host of photographs dating from the period, said Zhu Jihua, the archives’ curator.
“This is the first time these documents, which are mostly research materials, have been put on display to the general public,” he said.
Among the highlights is a collection of photos taken by war correspondents working for the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, Zhu said.
The images depict scenes from key battles fought between Chinese and Japanese troops not only in Shanghai, but across the country, he said.
One of them shows Japanese soldiers standing in front of the former city government building in Yangpu District, which they occupied in 1937 after forcing back Chinese troops during the Battle of Shanghai.
Other photographs, taken from the archives of the Xinhua news agency, show the impact the conflict had on the ordinary people of Shanghai, said Xiong Yuezhi, a professor with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
“There are pictures of some of the many people who lost their lives, and of buildings — like Jiangwan Labor University in Hongkou District and the Oriental Library in Zhabei District — that were destroyed in the conflict,” he said.
The exhibition is open free to the public until the middle of next month.
The Shanghai Municipal Archives is located at 9 Zhongshan No. 2 Road E in Huangpu District.
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